Places LouKYgreen Wants to Go

Savor the famous tempura-fried pork tenderloin sandwich at this long-standing Kansas City food counter.

Hamissi Mamba and Nadia Nijimbere opened this community-minded restaurant serving dishes from their native Burundi.

P-town goes wild for the malassadas at this 87-year-old institution.

Fuel your honky-tonking with this venue's unbeatable “Recession Special.”

Located close to a movie studio lot, this restaurant has a long history of star-studded patronage.

House a green chile pork Crunchwrap swaddled in hot, fresh tortillas.

Bone marrow-loaded birria with handmade corn tortillas—need we say more?

This beloved cheeseburger-slinging trailer holds Nashville's oldest beer license.

This seasonal soft serve shack has been doling out silky swirls since 1951.

Buttermilk biscuits so nice, you'll say “yay” twice.

Flaunt your karaoke chops at this pitch-perfect dive bar.

This iconic meat-and-three seasons every dish with ancestral cooking knowledge from South Carolina’s Lowcountry.

This ambitious restaurant celebrates the culinary traditions of the Ozarks before 1870.

Sip mead from an East Nashville apiary while snacking on barbacoa tacos.

A rainbow of kulfi and falooda flows from this Indian-style ice cream parlor.

Feast on award-winning birria tacos from a food truck inside this neon robo-tiki bar.

East Nashville's oldest dive bar will bring you back to life with animal-style bar fare.

Visit a family-run restaurant that has been serving the epitome of soul food for more than seven decades.

Train cars and railroad artifacts abound at this restaurant devoted to railway history.

This restaurant serves wood-fired fare served in a natural cave with a live spring.

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

Though it's thrived abroad, this forgotten Dunkin' rival has just one store left in the States.

An open-air, roadside eatery celebrating a historic indigenous cuisine of complicated significance.

On the shores of Lake Superior, a small group of monks makes sacred sweets.